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Ibe we inherited him after he was dropped by Charlton, McClure dropped by Crystal Palace. I think we got a couple of the others after after they were let go by higher league clubs. We lost a few to Reading around the same time, Scott Davies & Simon Church. There were more, I just cant remember.

It all comes down to the net you can afford to cast. The youth travel rule used to allow Southampton to reach so by that reckoning eight premier clubs can afford to take every decent youth player from the town. Our net could just about afford to reach Cressex.
There is no way we can afford a youth set up when we are so far down the pecking order on local talent. The best we can do is polish diamonds in the rough. That becomes even harder with no reserve team and the effectiveness of 4th division reserve football anyway.
Its a huge and obvious problem for English football but whilst the fat pigs at the premiership trough keep chomping who cares.
As an aside I find it interesting how many 16 and under players are featured in the BBC and Sky transfer gossip pages. And how nearly all of these are foreign players.

I am with you. I have a dream that a Team in our League of 72 are able emulate ManU "Class of 92", and bring through several local (British) talented players to first team and do well and win a Cup or something. It will remain a dream I know.

I think your all missing @malone point here. By the way you missed Charles Dunne. The players he mentioned were all from the same couple of crops really. Ibe was with us form 12 so he is without doubt in my book one of ours.

there also seems to be a fair few players cropping up in various first teams recently who were in the last set of wycombe youth players before it shut down. Jake Gray, Josh Laurent and James Roberts off the top of my head. Such a massive shame.